Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-12 Thread Karl Javorszky
Hi All, the talk here going about a possible curriculum, I have assembled one. This is of course only an outline but should give a realistic idea about the half-steps needed to grasp what we understand under information. I'd look forward working on this project. Asking for your kind tolerance, I

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-12 Thread Igor Gurevich
2011/12/9 m...@aiu.ac.jp: Dear all, I teach every year (this fall fourth time) a general education course Information Science for freshmen and sophomores which has as its main objective to present not an existing discipline, but a potential unified approach to study complex issues related

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-11 Thread john.holg...@ozemail.com.au
Thanks Walter, A useful snapshot of PC (Philosophy of Computing). It reminds me that the origin of the word 'computing' is com-putare = to consider together, suppose together, imagine together. This is surely what Steve Jobs was all about. To reduce computation to algorithmic calculation or

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-08 Thread John Collier
Good to see that fis perspectives are used in teaching. I use information ideas fundamentally in our second year Cognitive Science course, and also in some postgrad courses I teach. John At 03:03 PM 2011/12/07, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: Thanks a lot, Gordana. It is a very good idea.

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-08 Thread walter . riofrio
Dear all, It is possible find some useful ideas to build multi-inter-trans disciplinary approaches in last “closing statement” of Ubiquity Symposium: What is Computation? What Have We Said About Computation? [1] If you are interested in all papers of this ACM

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-08 Thread mjs
Dear all, I teach every year (this fall fourth time) a general education course Information Science for freshmen and sophomores which has as its main objective to present not an existing discipline, but a potential unified approach to study complex issues related to globalization.

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-07 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks a lot, Gordana. It is a very good idea. Unfortunately I could not participate in the opening of the session, well, at least I can say now that I had the experience of teaching for Engineering graduate students two neatly informational (FIS) disciplines. One of them, _Bioinformation:

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Hofkirchner
dear gordana, maybe the following is of interest to the topic. first, the description of the module i am responsible of in the curriculum of master students of technical informatics and media informatics from this year on (see below). and second, a link to download a background information

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-07 Thread Karl Javorszky
Dear FIS, Let me systematise the requirements and conditions raised so far and then discuss a proposal: Recapitulation: (maybe there will be a possibility to attach attachments to the postings. The following should be an attachment, where I recapitulate the points previous speakers have

[Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-06 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Hi All, One way of looking at the question of curriculum would be from the point of view of what already exists of education in the Foundations of Information. Are there any courses which might be a part of such a curriculum? To start with I can tell about the course I have, which does not